571 - Manage Complex Projects and Connections with This Simple System

Modern Mentor

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Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Managing complex projects with many people and connections? Here's a simple note-taking system to help you take over the world. Probably. TRANSCRIPT & LINKS Read the transcript: https://quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/organization/complex-project-note-system Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts JOIN THE CONVERSATION Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0	This is Steve Robbins.
0:02.3	Welcome to the good-it-done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.1	Today, we're going to tackle how to juggle multiple people and projects while keeping everything well under control.
0:15.4	Europa was for Klimt. Her day job is his office manager at Green Growing Things, a carnivorous plant store that specializes in Audrey Toos, but by night, she's the secret ruler of the Eastern Bloc.
0:26.3	She has a lot on her plate.
0:28.2	She's trying to juggle relationships with dozens of world leaders, clandestine negotiations with governments and appearances at the local plant appreciation lunch club.
0:36.1	And on top of everything else, her
0:38.0	ox-ridden teenage cyborg son, Thomas, has been dating the toaster. Sometimes she doesn't know
0:43.2	how a single parent is supposed to cope. With so much going on, important issues seem to come up
0:47.8	every few minutes. And dealing with any one of those issues might involve delegate negotiations
0:52.2	with several people. Having all of them hitting
0:54.7	at once leaves Europa's head spinning. She just can't keep track of who needs what and when they
0:59.1	need it. The president of Nowheristan has just placed an order for the world's largest supply of
1:04.0	squirt guns paid for an untraceable cryptocurrency. Now, she's sure that Vlad, Angela, and Boris
1:10.0	have an opinion about this. But the next time she calls Boris to demand her tribute, she's sure that Vlad, Angela, and Boris have an opinion about this, but the next time
1:12.0	she calls Boris to demand her tribute, she gets so caught up asking him to place an order for a
1:16.3	dozen lottery twos that she completely forgets to mention Nowhere's Stan. And then she asks Angela
1:22.0	to have the intelligence agencies do a background check on the toaster before realizing
1:25.8	how absurd it is to do a background check on a toaster. realizing how absurd it is to do a background check
1:27.8	on a toaster.
1:29.2	When there's way too much going on, you need a system for quickly organizing all that stuff
1:33.5	so that you can put your fingers, or your toes, or your noodley appendages, on it the
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